This weekend, we have our yearly neighbourhood grilling and BBQ event. Last year I prepared smoked baby-back ribs. This year my goal is to prepare Texas style Brisket 🙂
2.5 kg Raw Beef Brisket
English is not my first language, but I use it in this blog because that way I can reach a broader audience. If I would use Swiss German, only a few would be able to understand what I write about: “Wänn I würd schwiizerdütsch bruuche, dänn chönt wohl chuum öpper das hie läse” ;-).
Google Translate is not prefect, but still it does a fair job of translating web pages. I have added now a Google translate button to this blog side bar. Click on it and have the web page translated to the language of your choice. Try it out:
💡 If you are speaking Portuguese and want to learn about the Freescale FRDM-KL25Z board, then check out https://hardwarizando.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/introducao-a-kl25z-codewarrior-processor-expert-e-interrupcoes-periodicas/
Happy Translating 🙂
PS: some of the translations by Google are sooooo funny 🙂
I’m working on a conference paper and presentation, and tonight I had a break-through :-). So how cool is this: Profiling with GNU gprof a bare-metal embedded Cortex-M application (Freescale Kinetis K64F running the Freescale Kinetis SDK) in Eclipse:
Freescale Kinetis Microcontroller Application Profiling
I’ve been running into an issue with an Eclipse plugin update: I updated a plugin, and then broke a critical functionality. What I usually do is to uninstall the plugin (see “Uninstalling Eclipse Plugins“), and then install it again. However, in this case the uninstall ended with an error too :-(.
Uninstall failed
What now? How can I revert that plugin installation/update?
Grand Prismatic Spring (click to enlarge)
The Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest and one of the most brilliant of the many springs in Yellowstone. The temperature of the water is around 60°C. The yellow, orange and brown colors are caused by small heat-loving microorganisms, names thermophiles. The intense blue color in the center is because of the sunlight gets scattered by fine particles in the water. Simply beautiful!
Happy Heating 🙂
I worked the past weekend and nights using the Freescale FRDM-K64F board with the colorful Adafruit NeoPixels (see “Tutorial: Adafruit WS2812B NeoPixels with the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board – Part 1: Hardware“). These RGB LEDs can create beautiful colors. For for the non-geeky readers I have a more ‘natural’ one:
Hot Spring Colors (click to enlarge)
The beautiful colors in Yellowstone National Park (USA) are the result of pigmented bacteria that grow around the edges of the mineral rich water. I very much enjoyed it a few years ago, cannot wait to get back there.
Happy Coloring 🙂
This is Part 5 of a Mini Series. In Part 4, I described how to set up the FTM (Kinetis Flex Timer Module) to generate the required waveforms used for DMA operations (see “Tutorial: Adafruit WS2812B NeoPixels with the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board – Part 4: Timer“). In this post I describe how to use to trigger DMA (Direct To Memory) events. The goal is to drive Adafruit’s NeoPixel (WS2812B) with the Freescale FRDM-K64F board:
FRDM-K64F with Adafruit NeoPixel
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This is Part 4 of a Mini Series. In Part 3, I described the software concepts (see “Tutorial: Adafruit WS2812B NeoPixels with the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board – Part 3: Concepts“). In this post I describe how to set-up the timer to trigger later DMA operations. The goal is to drive Adafruit’s NeoPixel (WS2812B) with the Freescale FRDM-K64F board:
NeoPixels with FRDM-K64F
This is Part 3 of a Mini Series. In Part 2, I described how to set up the development tools and to debug the first project (see “Tutorial: Adafruit WS2812B NeoPixels with the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board – Part 2: Software Tools“). Now it is time to look into the software concepts. The goal is to drive Adafruit’s NeoPixel (WS2812B) with the Freescale FRDM-K64F board:
Adafruit 8×8 NeoPixel Shield with Freescale FRDM-K64F Board
MCU on Eclipse 